The Sydney Morning Herald, Mon 23 Dec 1878 ¹

POLICE.
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    At the CENTRAL POLICE COURT, on Saturday, before the Police Magistrate (with Messrs Arguimbau [aka Arguinbau], W Fowler, and Cunninghame)
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    John Ellis was convicted of having wilfully and indecently exposed himself to two little girls in Washington- street, and was sentenced to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for six months.

^¹  The Sydney Morning Herald, Mon 23 Dec 1878, p. 3.